169 Dostoevsky

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881) was, in the estimation of James Joyce, “the man more than any other who has created modern prose.” “Outside Shakespeare,” Virginia Woolf wrote, “there is no more exciting reading.” His influence is as impossible to understand as it is to overstate: he is widely credited as the forerunner of modern psychology, existentialist philosophy, the detective novel, and the prison memoir - and is, by any measure, one of the pinnacles of Russian literature. In this episode of The History of Literature, we consider the life and works of one of the greatest novelists the world has ever known. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:10.0	Author James Joyce said, quote,
0:12.0	He is the man more than any other who has created modern prose
0:16.0	and intensified it to its present-day pitch.
0:19.0	It was his explosive power, which shattered the Victorian novel with its
0:23.4	simpering maidens and ordered commonplaces, books which were without
0:28.0	imagination or violence. I know that some people think that he was fantastic, mad even, but the motives he employed in his work, violence and desire are the very breath of literature."
0:41.0	Joyce was talking about the great Russian novelist
0:45.0	Fyodor Dostheevsky, author of many celebrated novels,
0:49.0	including his masterworks,
0:50.0	notes from underground,
0:52.0	crime and punishment, and the Brothers Karamazov.
0:56.0	We'll be exploring the life and works of this sensational writer today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. I'm Jack Wilson. Welcome to the podcast. What a time it is to be alive. We've wrapped up
1:25.7	Thanksgiving here in America, given all of our thanks for the year. We're all
1:30.1	thanked out. Exhausted by thanks. I wonder why we don't just have
1:34.8	Thanksgiving. Wouldn't that be a little easier? It's such a great idea. I'm not sure
1:40.4	why no one's thought of it. Instead of running around thanking everyone, we could just sit still and be thanked over and over.
1:49.0	Maybe next year. In any case, I had a good holiday and I hope you did too for those of you who celebrated it.
1:56.3	Speaking of thanks, boy am I ever thankful for today's author Dostejevsky?
2:02.8	What a great person he was.
2:04.9	Let's tackle an email or two, and then we will,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jacke Wilson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jacke Wilson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.